The third type of think tank board is found among those organisations that are affiliated to a state institution such as a Ministry or Department. We found, for example, that the Ethiopian Development Research Institute, which refers to itself as a “semi-autonomous think tank”, has no board of directors but rather an executive director who answers directly to the Office of the Prime Minister (and he also happens to be the Prime Minister’s chief economic advisor). It counts, however, with a Technical Advisory Committee, a kind of advisory board which consists of several state ministers as well as the think tank’s executive director and director of programs, which is presumably in charge of offering advice and guidance regarding the type of research and the overall position the institution should undertake, always in line with governmental interests. According to Diane Stone: